Pvrchas his Pilgrimes
Subtitle: in five bookes
By: [by Samvel Pvrchas]
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 66683
Publisher: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone
Published: 1625
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800; Geography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Purchas his pilgrimes; Haklvytvs posthumus
Notes: Vol. 1 has added t.-p., engraved: Haklvytvs posthumus or Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen & others ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death, more since added, his also perused, & perfected. All examined, abreuiated illustrated wth notes, enlarged wth discourses, adorned wth pictures, and expressed in mapps. In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. By Samvel Pvrchas, B.D

"The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world ... ; the second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe; the third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coastes of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abissine, Arabian, Persian, Indian shoares, continents, and ilands; the fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Japan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippine with others, and the Indian nauigations further prosecuted ... ; the fifth, Nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries of the English Nation in the eastern parts  of the world ... "

Vols. 1-2 and 3-4 paged continuously, except book 1 of v. 1, which is paged separately. Many errors in paging. See Lowndes, Bibliographer's manual of Eng. lit., v. 4, for full collation

"Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places ..." 4th ed., London, 1626, is bound uniformly with this set and lettered: Purchas's Pilgrims. vol. V

Sabin, 66683

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1998. 52 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 27433-27484)